273924 – (CVE-2009-1384) <sys-auth/pam_krb5-? user enumeration (CVE-2009-1384)

Bug 273924 (CVE-2009-1384) - <sys-auth/pam_krb5-? user enumeration (CVE-2009-1384)

Summary: <sys-auth/pam_krb5-? user enumeration (CVE-2009-1384)

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	CVE-2009-1384

Product:	Gentoo Security
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High minor (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Security

URL:	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug....
Whiteboard:	B4 [invalid]
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Reported:	2009-06-12 21:24 UTC by Stefan Behte (RETIRED)
Modified:	2010-04-30 17:38 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Stefan Behte (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-06-12 21:24:12 UTC

CVE-2009-1384 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2009-1384):
  pam_krb5 2.2.14 through 2.3.4, as used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  (RHEL) 5, generates different password prompts depending on whether
  the user account exists, which allows remote attackers to enumerate
  valid usernames.

Comment 1 Stefan Behte (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-06-12 21:26:34 UTC

I'm not sure about the versioning, BUT even if I'm wrong, this bug has it's use to remind you to remove older, vulnerable versions <3.12 from tree.

Comment 2 Michael Hammer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-06-15 07:32:10 UTC

the red hat pam_krb5 and ours (from Russ Allbery) have a different codebase AFAIK. But on the other hand it doesn't hurt to clean up old pam_krb5 releases.

Therefore -> fixed. g, mueli

Comment 3 Stefan Behte (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-06-15 17:00:32 UTC

Thanks!
I had in mind that there was something up with pam_krb5; now I had a look: our package is called "sys-auth/pam_krb5" in portage, but in fact it is pam-krb5 (note the hyphon/underscore); the redhat package is the "real" pam_krb5.